TY - BOOK ED - Maison Martin Margiela. TI - Maison Martin Margiela SN - 9780847833535 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Rizzoli KW - Margiela, Martin. KW - Fashion designers KW - Belgium KW - Biography KW - Fashion design KW - France KW - Paris N1 - Dear Martin / Jean Paul Gaultier -- The birth, death and re-birth of conceptual fashion / Susannah Frankel -- From Worth to Margiela / Didier Grumbach -- An innovative insolence: Martin Margiela / Andrée Putman -- Fashion like the dark side of the moon: the moon ray / Chris Dercon -- Neo-artisanal: recovery and recycling at the center of a unique adventure / Lele Acquarone -- And if absence were not a subject? / Sonia Rachline -- MMM and beauty / Vanessa Beecroft -- Martin Margiela: inventor of a style / Olivier Saillard -- Margiela forever! / Carine Roitfled -- Inviting, inventing for forty seasons / Vincent Wierink -- Glossary & some of the things we've been doing over the past 20 years N2 - "Graduating from Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. Working first with the house of Gaultier, Margiela absorbed the radical design of Japanese deconstruction, making it wholly his own with the founding of his own label in 1988. Margiela propounds a singular, enigmatic look, moving beyond the recognizable tropes of deconstruction - a monochromatic palette, outsized garments, non-traditional fabrics, exposed seams, or roughly appliqued details - to develop a fully considered worldview, one with elegance, mystery, and menace in equal measure. This book provides an inside look at the design process from a craftsman who creates pieces prized for their originality, delicacy, and daring. In the spirit of Margiela's garments, the book is a work of art in itself, designed exclusively. By Margiela and complete with silver inks, ribbon markers, a variety of lush paper types, twelve booklets, and an embroidered white-linen cover. This book provides a window onto the intimate, handmade world of a unique designer." --Book Jacket ER -